Screen time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing at that age.

No tv for a 5-7 year old? Is this a real post?

Yes. People who read articles. I was visiting with family and their four year old is extremely limited to electronics. When he visits he can watch TV. There was a program with Mario Bro was played. Not YouTube where you see the person. This four year old is obsessed with Mario and stared at the TV transfixed for a couple of hours. He was so into it he was practically drooling because he forget to close his mouth and swallow.

Twenty years ago kids played video games without so much obsession. It was just another activity. My son and his best friend played a lot together. They had other interests too but at four years old they had completed the game that the current four year old could only watch, not participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing at that age.

No tv for a 5-7 year old? Is this a real post?

Yes. People who read articles. I was visiting with family and their four year old is extremely limited to electronics. When he visits he can watch TV. There was a program with Mario Bro was played. Not YouTube where you see the person. This four year old is obsessed with Mario and stared at the TV transfixed for a couple of hours. He was so into it he was practically drooling because he forget to close his mouth and swallow.

Twenty years ago kids played video games without so much obsession. It was just another activity. My son and his best friend played a lot together. They had other interests too but at four years old they had completed the game that the current four year old could only watch, not participate.

Are you saying that screens and games have changed and are way worse than they were 20 years ago, so screen time should be delayed now? Or are you saying the current 4 year old was only allowed to watch TV constantly should have been allowed to play video games? Or his screen time overall was too limited and that’s why he was obsessed? I can’t tell what you’re trying to say here…

[Anonymous]

TV for 30-45 mins/day for 7yo DD and younger sib - they watch together where we can all see.

No YouTube or tablet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing at that age.

No tv for a 5-7 year old? Is this a real post?

Yes. People who read articles. I was visiting with family and their four year old is extremely limited to electronics. When he visits he can watch TV. There was a program with Mario Bro was played. Not YouTube where you see the person. This four year old is obsessed with Mario and stared at the TV transfixed for a couple of hours. He was so into it he was practically drooling because he forget to close his mouth and swallow.

Twenty years ago kids played video games without so much obsession. It was just another activity. My son and his best friend played a lot together. They had other interests too but at four years old they had completed the game that the current four year old could only watch, not participate.

Are you saying that screens and games have changed and are way worse than they were 20 years ago, so screen time should be delayed now? Or are you saying the current 4 year old was only allowed to watch TV constantly should have been allowed to play video games? Or his screen time overall was too limited and that’s why he was obsessed? I can’t tell what you’re trying to say here…

I think I was just giving examples of “screens” from 20 years ago and today. 20 years ago people were more reasonable, more chill. Nobody used the word “screens”. TV and video games were in every kids home. It was routine that preschoolers knew how to play video games. Boys typically played together. It was just another activity.

Today too many parents are not reasonable or chill. They don’t seem to trust their own common sense.

The 4 year old was an example of today and the use of video games. He doesn’t have unlimited TV except when he’s with the babysitter. The parents read that video games were bad so they banned them. And they’re pretty smug about it too. The four year old has an obsession with Mario and it’s probably related to his not able to play. At the babysitter’s house he watches Mario nonstop. He sits there with his eyes glazed over like he can’t look away.

I’m trying to say that I think 20 years ago the use of video games was as normal as any other activity. Now parents become obsessed with whether they should have them and if so how many minutes, how many days. Then the kid becomes obsessed. Too extreme and overthinking is not good.

[Anonymous]

I allowed 30 minutes a day at that age.